Last month the secateurs were drawn, wielded, stripped down and re-holstered ready for the 2010 harvest. The 100,000 or so casual harvesters who descended from all over Europe have moved on to their next project and the Champagne region regains an air of normality. The focus is now on getting supplies prepared and shipped to …
Tag Archive: production
Sep
10
Harvest – snip snip
So my champagne blog update continues! This is really a very very interesting time of year for champagne wine and its production – with a manic burst of activity universal across all 30,000 hectares of vineyards that make up the appellation. Today it happened; from all over Europe teams of people descended on the vines …
Jul
17
Update from the vineyards
July is a steady month in the champagne vineyards but one which is critical for the harvest in September; it is the month where the grapes which were newly formed after fertilisation during June’s flowering develop on the vines. Temperature averages 24.7c during the month but nonetheless the annual average is still only 10c! As …
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